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Business News: Stephen Forsey, Co-Founder Of Greubel Forsey, Steps Down From Company Board Stephen Forsey, half of the duo that founded the highly technical Swiss watch brand Greubel Forsey, has stepped down from the company's board of directors and will no longer have a role in the day-to-day operations of the watchmaker, the company's top executive confirmed. Forsey, who founded the company with fellow watchmaker Robert Greubel in 2004, remains a significant minority shareholder of the Swiss-based company that controls the brand but will no longer be involved in its designs, business, or operations, Michel Nydegger, Greubel Forsey's Chief Executive Officer, said in an interview. "Stephen has stepped down from the board by his own decision," Nydegger says. Forsey had already been increasingly stepping back from the company's business and watchmaking, the CEO added. Stephen Forsey in a company supplied photo for an interview with Hodinkee. from 2015.  ...

Introducing: Chopard's Zagato Lab One Concept, The Brand's Lightest Titanium Watch Ever What We Know Launched at this spring's Retromobile classic car show in Paris, Chopard and Zagato are teaming up for the lightest titanium watch the watchmaking maison has ever launched. The new Chopard Zagato Lab One Concept does away with excess weight by stripping away features like dials or fully formed cases. Instead, this is all about weight-to-power (or maybe weight-to-horology). The movement mainplate functions as the dial, rhodium-finished and featuring the Zagato "Z" motif, plus chamfering. There, you can see the fuel-gauge-inspired power reserve indication, hours, minutes, and the 60-second tourbillon (housed in an aluminium carriage). The watch is part of the brand's Mille Miglia collection, which further underscores the tie between the watchmaking maison, which sponsors the historic car race, and the Italian coachbuilding design studio. This is far from the...

Introducing: The Atelier Wen Millésime 2025 Perception (Live Pics) What We Know This week, French-Chinese brand Atelier Wen introduces its Millésime 2025 special edition. Ironically, releasing in 2026, due to a few manufacturing delays, the Millésime 2025 edition is the brand's second entry in its efforts to establish a yearly small-batch limited edition. The first edition, launched in 2024, came in the form of an all-titanium Perception, the brand's integrated-bracelet sports watch, with a purple engine-turned guilloché dial. This year's version marks the return of the Perception, now with a 904L stainless steel and a natural stone dial in pietersite. Designed by Alfred Chan ( a familiar name in the microbrand space ), this Perception is largely the same as its predecessors, save for the stone dial. The case, with its angled facets and prominent "ears," measures 40mm in diameter, 47mm lug-to-lug, and 9.4mm thick (including the double-domed sapphire crystal),...

Introducing: The Astor + Banks Terra Scout What We Know Today, microbrand Astor+Banks introduces its take on a field-ish watch, with the Terra Scout. As with most watches in this space that catch my eye, the new Terra Scout combines a bit of toolish ruggedness with an extra bit of design flair when it comes to the dial. And, to avoid burying the lede: the Terra Scout is powered by a La Joux-Perret G100 while still maintaining an accessible and competitive price point.  The limited edition Desert Sand Cerakote finish. The new watch comes in four different models, two with black dials and two with white luminous dials. Essentially inversions of each other, the black and white dials are constructed in a deep sandwich fashion, with three layers exposed to give an even deeper look to the front. A minute track sits on top as an extra layer, while the layer below features cutouts for the hour indices and space for the dial text and printed logo.  The final layer reveals a...

Atelier Wen Introduces a New Perception with a Rare Natural Pietersite Dial Last year, Atelier Wen released one of my favorite watches of the year in the Inflection , a bold and ambitious integrated bracelet sports watch in tantalum. The reaction to that watch, to my mind, was puzzling. While there were certainly many supporters and admirers of the Inflection, there was also a vocal contingent of enthusiasts on Instagram and various watch blog comment sections (who, to be fair, were probably not customers for this particular watch anyway) griping about the price, and the fact that a brand centered on value and approachability would even make a watch like this (the retail price is just shy of $30,000).  I’ve never cared much for the notion that a brand that makes affordable watches can’t also make watches that are very, very expensive. It’s all relative anyway, right? Rolex makes watches that are considered entry points to the brand at right around $10,000, but they also have...

Hands-On: The Bühlmann Decompression 02 Is A Tool’s Tool In A World Of Wannabes On paper, the Bühlmann Decompression 02 has the size and weight to deliver a serious underarm workout as a beefy 500m+ dive watch; in fact, it's tested to 575m, and it incorporates a helium valve. But as a thoughtfully constructed instrument with an unusual focus area, the Bühlmann Decompression 02 has a much more complex charm. Bühlmann is a sub-brand under the wing of Swiss manufacturer Watch Angels, and I had a chat with CEO Guido Benedini about its inception. "Watch Angels is a vertically integrated watch enthusiasts' platform that brings alive meaningful watches, brands, and horological heritage projects, "Benedini tells me. "Our mission is to never produce a boring watch." And boring is a term that could never apply to the brutish and overachieving charm of the Decompression 02. First Impressions The box surrounding the Decompression 02 will fool you with its generic, ...

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TAG Heuer Heritage Director Nicholas Biebuyck on the New Carreras, Formula One, and the Future of the Brand It can be hard to love a heritage brand in its modern guise. The chasm between the demands of the modern world and the spirit that once defined a legacy brand is usually vast, and the need to progress and stay relevant typically outweighs any brand’s need to satisfy the enthusiasts and history buffs that love it. When it comes to TAG Heuer, however, there’s a different story being told–one that truly celebrates the brand’s history while seeking a seat at the table of the upper echelon of watchmaking.  The man responsible for orchestrating that balancing act is Nicholas Biebuyck, TAG Heuer’s Heritage Director. While Biebuyck wears many hats within the TAG Heuer machine, he’s an enthusiast at his core. The man understands where the brand has been and what that history means to his fellow enthusiasts, but he also has his eyes firmly on the future. Biebuyck knows that for TA...